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Cool, can't wait for the first official release. It also means we'll soon be able to see how good(or bad) Wayland really is, and I have a bit of a good feeling of course.
It should only get easier to test/see it from first hand from now on.

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Cool, can't wait for the first official release. It also means we'll soon be able to see how good(or bad) Wayland really is, and I have a bit of a good feeling of course.
It should only get easier to test/see it from first hand from now on.

Its the desktop guys that "hold it back" and some basic apps of course (ie. firefox). Hope that after the official release we'll see a full desktop in a few months time.

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Its the desktop guys that "hold it back" and some basic apps of course (ie. firefox). Hope that after the official release we'll see a full desktop in a few months time.

As the article already states: Wayland is far from being usable. The 1.0 release means only stability regarding to APIs. Up until now Wayland was too much of a moving target for other developers to port to it.

IMO modifying applications and its toolkits to look reasonable on retina displays is a more important goal.

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As the article already states: Wayland is far from being usable. The 1.0 release means only stability regarding to APIs. Up until now Wayland was too much of a moving target for other developers to port to it.

IMO modifying applications and its toolkits to look reasonable on retina displays is a more important goal.

Hmmmm.

Are there things missing in the protocol for writing a full featured compositor or its just weston thats not feature full? I was under the impression that only the text stuff were not ready yet.

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Weston is like an "example" compositor from my understanding. It's not excactly meant to be used by DE's etc(unless they choose to). Possibly will likely have more usage like twm, as fallback/test that the windowing system works, rather than desktop use. Can someone who knows better confirm.

But yeah, with 1.0 release and API stability, it should start to be targeted by more for compatibility(as mentioned). ^_^